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History Timeline from 13.7 Billion Years ago to August 2013. 1 of 588 pages
This PDF History Timeline has been extracted from the History World web site's time line.
The PDF is a very simplified version of the History World timeline. The PDF is stripped of
all the links found on that timeline. If an entry attracts your interest and you want further
detail, click on the link at the foot of each of the PDF pages and query the subject or the
PDF entry on the web site, or simply do an internet search.
When I saw the History World timeline I wanted a copy of it for myself and my family in a
form that we could access off-line, on demand, on the device of our choice. This PDF is
the result.
What attracted me particularly about the History World timeline is that each event, which
might be earth shattering in itself with a wealth of detail sufficient to write volumes on, and
indeed many such events have had volumes written on them, is presented as a sort of
pared down news head-line. Basic unadorned fact.
Also, the History World timeline is multi-faceted. Most historic works focus on their own
area of interest and ignore seemingly unrelated events, but this timeline offers glimpses of
cross-sections of history for any given time, embracing art, politics, war, nations, religions,
cultures and science, just to mention a few elements covered. The view is fascinating.
Then there is always the question of what should be included and what excluded. I don't
always agree with the timeline from that perspective but I think they mostly include all the
important stuff.
With a decent PDF viewer you should have no difficulty running queries and/or indexing
the content. I use ez PDF Reader.
This PDF is available free at World History Time-Line Of course, the timeline in its entirety
is available at History World.
Regarding updates – we will have to see.
I hope this PDF makes the history timeline and history itself more accessible.
Enjoy,
John Barrington.
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History Timeline from 13.7 Billion Years ago to August 2013. 2 of 588 pages
2013 August 29 The House of Commons defeats David Cameron on his plan to support
US military intervention in Syria
2013 August 21 Bradley Manning, to be known henceforth as Chelsea Manning, is
sentenced to 35 years in prison for his leaking of government documents
2013 August 21 Syrian government and rebels blame each other when a nerve gas
attack kills more than 600 people in Saqba, a suburb of Damascus
2013 August 15 Egyptian soldiers use live ammunition to disperse Muslim supporters of
President Morsi, killing about 600
2013 August 14 The Egyptian army declares a state of emergency after continuing
Muslim demonstrations and imposes a curfew
2013 August 1 The American whistleblower Edward Snowden is granted a one-year visa
to live in Russia
2013 July 30 The first meeting in new Israel-Palestine peace talks takes place in
Washington
2013 July 17 Same-sex marriage is legalized in England and Wales
2013 from July 17 Egyptian troops begin using live ammunition against Muslim
Brotherhood demonstrators
2013 July 13 A jury in Florida sparks nation-wide outrage by their acquittal of George
Zimmerman on the charge of murdering a black teenager, Trayvon Martin
2013 July 7 Andy Murray wins the Men's Singles at Wimbledon, becoming the first Briton
to do so since Fred Perry in 1936
2013 July 3 After mounting chaos in Egypt the army arrests President Morsi, legitimately
elected, and takes control
2013 July 1 Croatia joins the European Union, as the 28th member
2013 June 30 Violent clashes erupt throughout Egypt between Muslim Brotherhood
supporters of President Morsi and those objecting to his Islamist policies
2013 June 26 Julia Gillard, Australia's first female prime minister, is rejected in Labour
party vote and is replaced by Kevin Rudd
2013 June 15 A cleric with moderate views, Hassan Rowhani, wins Iran's presidential
election, raising international hopes for dialogue
2013 June 14-30 Flash floods in India kill nearly 6000 people and isolate more than
20,000
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2013 June 6 The Guardian, a UK newspaper, publishes the first of many scoops based
on the secret files of the NSA and GCHQ, leaked by Edward Snowden
2013 June The Afghan Taliban project a new image, opening an office in Qatar
2013 May 27 The European Union lifts the ban on providing arms to the rebels in Syria

2013 May 22 In a London street two men hack to death a British soldier, Lee Rigby, and
tell passers-by that they are avenging Muslims killed by the army
2013 April 24 The collapse of a jerry-built garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, results
in massive casualties and more than 1000 deaths
2013 May 5 Israel makes the first of two air strikes into Syria, targeting arsenals of the
terrorist group Hezbollah
2013 April 19 After the arrest of the second Boston suspect it emerges that the terrorists
are two Muslim brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
2013 April 18 Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the suspects in the Boston terrorist attack, is
killed in a shoot-out with police
2013 April 15 Two pressure cooker bombs, planted near the finishing line of the Boston
marathon, kill 3 and wound 264 spectators
2013 April 14 After the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, Nicolas Maduro
wins a close and stronngly disputed presidential election
2013 March 25 After a prolonged financial crisis Cyprus accepts stringent terms for a
European Union €10 billion bailout
2013 March 14 Scientists at CERN announce that the recently discovered particle is
beyond doubt the Standard Model of the Higg's boson
2013 March 14 Xi Jinping is elected the President of the People's Republic of China

2013 March 13 The Argentinian archbishop Jorge Bergoglio is elected pope and takes
the name Francis in honour of St Francis of Assisi
2013 February 25 In the italian election Beppe Grillo's new Five Star Movement wins
25% of the votes but refuses to join any coalition
2013 February 28 Pope Benedict XVI resigns, the first pope to do so for 600 years

2013 February 15 A huge meteor enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over
Chelyabinsk in Russia, injuring more than 1000 people
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2013 February 14 Double-amputee Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius is charged with the
murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp
2013 February 12 North Korea carries out its third underground nuclear test
2013 January 21 Scientists at Cambridge university prove that there is quadruple helix
DNA in humans, promising potential protection against cancer
2013 January 25 Violent protests erupt in Egypt against President Morsi and the Muslim
Brotherhood

2013 January 22 Netanyahu wins the Israeli election, with second place taken by a
moderate party,Yesh Atid, newly formed by Yair Lapid
2013 January 17 About forty foreign hostages and twenty-nine militants die when
Algerian forces raid the In Amenas gas site
2013 January 11 Radical Islamists take more than 800 people hostage at the In Amenas
Gas Project in Algeria
2013 January 11 French troops arrivee in Mali, at the government's request, to help in
evicting radical Islamist groups from the north of the country
2012 December 14 Adam Lanza shoots and kills twenty children and six staff members
in the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connnecticut
2012 December 8 At a UN Climate Change conference in Qatar there is agreement to
extend the existing Kyoto Protocol to 2020
2012 November 29 The UN General Assembly, defying Israel, grants Palestine the
status of a non-member observer state
2012 November 6 Barack Obama wins second term, defeating Republican Mitt Romney
In US presidential election
2012 October 30 Superstorm Sandy, after devastating much of the Caribbean, reaches
the east coast of the USA, killing more than 100 people
2012 October 22 Experts who gave tragically wrong earthquake advice at L'Aquila in
2009 are given six-year sentences for manslaughter
2012 October 14 Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner, jumping from a balloon 24 miles
up, becomes the first man to break the speed of sound in freefall
2012 October 12 In a controversial decision, the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the
European Union
2012 October 9 A gunman severely wounds a 14-year-old Pakistani girl, Malala
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Yousafzai, because of her protests against the Taliban suppression of girls' schools

2012 September 29 Burma's president Thein Sein says that he would accept Aung San
Suu Kyi as his successor
2012 September 13 US embassies in Yemen and Egypt are attacked, as the protests
against Innocence of Muslims spread
2012 September 11 The US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, is killed in a
terrorist attack on the embassy in Benghazi
2012 September 11 Violent protests against the film Innocence of Muslims break out in
Egypt and soon spread to other Muslim countries
2012 September 9 An excerpt of an anti-Islamic film made in the USA, Innocence of
Muslims, is broadcast in Egypt on a Muslim TV channel
2012 December 12 North Korea successfully launches a powerful rocket, alarming the
world with a new sign of military potential
2012 November 22 Mohamed Morsi issues a declaration giving himself virtually
unlimited powers, leading to violent protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square
2012 August 28 Mitt Romney is formally nominated, at the Republican convention in
Tampa, as the party's presidential candidate politics democracy
2012 August 11 Mitt Romney selects Paul Ryan, a more hardline Republican, as his
vice-presidential candidate
2012 August 6 Curiosity, NASA's roving science laboratory, lands successfully on Mars
after a 354 million-mile journey through space
2012 August 1 The US swimmer Michael Phelps wins his 19th Olympic medal to
become the most successful competitor in the history of the games
2012 July 10 Russia and China again veto a UN Security Council attempt to apply
economic sanctions on Syria
2012 July 4 CERN announces the discovery of a new particle, possibly the much
anticipated Higgs boson, in the Large Hadron Collider
2012 June 24 Mohamed Morsi, a leading figure in the Muslim Brotherhood, becomes
Egypt's first democratically elected president
2012 June 24 The death of Lonesome George, a giant tortoise in the Galapagos Islands,
means that his subspecies becomes extinct
2012 June 19 The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, breaks bail and seeks asylum
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in the Equadorian embassy in London
2012 June 8 The UN declares that the violence in Syria has become civil war
2012 June 2 An Egyptian court sentences former president Hosni Mubarak to life
imprisonment

2012 May 22 A pastel version of Edvard Munch's The Scream sells for US $120 million,
by far the record for any work of art
2012 May 10 The largest US bank, JPMorgan Chase, announces losses of two billion
dollars

2012 May 6 François Hollande defeats Nicolas Sarkozy and becomes president of
France

2012 June 24 Mohamed Morsi, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood, wins the
presidential elect in Egypt with 51% of the vote
2012 April 13 The rocket Kwangmyongsong-3 breaks up less than two minutes after its
launch, in North Korea's third attempt to put a satellite into space
2012 April 1 Aung San Suu Kyi and her party win almost all the 45 seats in Burma's
nation-wide by-elections
2012 March 15 The Taliban response to the murder of villagers is to suspend peace
talks with the US and the Karzai government
2012 March 13 244 years after its launch in Scotland in 1768 the Encyclopedia
Britannica publishes its final printed edition
2012 March 10 An American soldier leaves his barracks and kills 17 villagers, including 9
children, in Afghanistan
2012 March 4 Vladimir Putin is elected president in Russia, prompting large public
protests and widespread allegations of fraud
2012 February 27 After violent protests in the Yemen the president, Ali Abdullah Saleh,
cedes power and leaves the country
2012 February 6 The Diamond of Jubilee of Elizabeth II marks the 60th anniversary of
her succession as Queen of the UK and Head of the Commonwealth
2012 February 4 Russia and China use their Security Council veto to block a UN
resolution to end the violence in Syria
2012 February 1 About 80 people are killed and more than 1000 injured in a clash
between fans at a football match in the Egyptian city Port Said
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2012 January 23 The European Union imposes an oil embargo on Iran to deter efforts to
achieve a nuclear weapon
2012 January 13 The Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia crashes into a rock near the
Italian island of Giglio, killing 32 people
2011 December 29 Iran blames the USA and Israel for the murder of one of their nuclear
scientists by a suicide bomber on a motorcyle
2011 December 29 Samoa and Tokelau move themselves from east to west of the
International Date Line to coincide their date with their nearest trading partners

2011 December 20 NASA's Kepler mission discovers the first two earth-size planets
outside our solar system
2011 December 15 The USA formally declares an end to the Iraq War
2011 November 26 NASA launches a rocket carrying the roving science laboratory
Curiosity, which is programmed to land on Mars on 6 August 2012
2011 November 18 Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam is captured when attempting to flee to
Niger and is held for trial
2011 October-December At some time during this period the world's population is
estimated to have reached seven billion
2011 October 31 UNESCO admits Palestine as a member after a vote with a large
majority in favour

2011 October 18 The Libyan leader Muammad Gaddafi is captured and killed in Sirte

2011 October 18 Hamas releases the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange
for 1027 Palestinian and Israeli-Arab prisoners held in Israel
2011 September 11 The Occupy Wall Street protest begins and its PR success prompts
the Occupy movement around the world
2011 September 5 India and Pakistan agree to resolve their various border disputes and
to set about finding the most appropriate compromise in each case
2011 August-September Unusually heavy monsoon rains cause massive flooding in
Pakistan, with some 5 million people forced to leave their homes
2011 August 22 Juno, a solar-powered spacecraft, is launched from Cape Carnaveral
on a mission to Jupiter
2011 August 6 Standard & Poor's downgrades the USA's credit rating from AAA to AA+,
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further increasing the sense of gloom in stock exchanges
2011 August 5 NASA announces that it has photographic evidence from the Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter of possible liquid water on the planet in warm seasons

2011 August 3 Hosni Mubarak appears in court on a hospital bed on the first day of his
trial on the capital charge of premeditated killing of peaceful protesters
2011 July With no sign of a deal between Obama and Republicans on raising the debt
limit, fears grow that the USA might default on its debts on August 2
2011 July The funding crisis in the Eurozone extends to fears of potential government
default in the large economies of Spain and Italy
2011 July 31 In response to the continuing uprising the Syrian government launches an
attack with tanks against several of the country's cities, in particular Hama

2011 July 31 President Obama announces a last-minute deal with congressional leaders
on the debt limit, temporarily calming the fears of the financial markets
2011 July 28 The commander of the rebel forces in Libya, Abdel Fattah Younes, is
assassinated in mysterious circumstances while in rebel hands
2011 July 22 Eurozone leaders agree a second bail-out package for Greece of €109
billion
2011 July 22 Anders Behring Breivik shoots and kills 69 young people on the Norwegian
island of Uteya after killing eight with a bomb in government buildings in Oslo

2011 July 21 The return of Space Shuttle Atlantis to the Kennedy Space Centre ends
NASA's 20-year space shuttle programme
2011 July 20 The United Nations declares southern Somalia to be in a state of famine,
with the disastrous lack of rain driving thousands of refugees into Ethiopia and
Kenya

2011 July 20 Goran Hadzic is arrested in Serbia, completing the detention of all 161
people from the former Yugoslavia indicted by the International Criminal Court

2011 July 9 Following the referendum result earlier in the year, South Sudan secedes
from the Sudan to become the independent Republic of South Sudan
2011 July 7 Surgeons in Sweden achieve the first artificial living organ transplant, after
using the patient's own stem cells to coat a plastic replica of his windpipe
2011 June 4 President Saleh of Yemen is flown to Egypt for medical treatment, after
being wounded on the previous day by an explosion in the government compound
in Sana'a
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2011 May 28 A court in Cairo finds Hosni Mubarak guilty of damaging the national
economy by severing internet connections on January 26 and fines him about US
$34 million

2011 May 26 Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb commander wanted for war crimes at
Srebrenica in 1995, is arrested in Serbia and subsequently extradited to the Hague

2011 May 2 At 1.a.m. Osama bin Laden is killed in his house in Abbottabad, in Pakistan,
by a special forces team of US Navy SEALs
2011 April 29 Prince William marries Kate Middleton in London's Westminster Abbey in
a ceremony watched by millions of viewers around the world
2011 April 11 The civil war in Ivory Coast is perhaps ended by the capture of former
president, and recently defeated presidential candidate, Laurent Gbagbo
2011 March 30 In a relaxation of military rule in Burma Thein Sein is sworn in as the first
civilian president

2011 March 20 The first air strikes by NATO, authorized by the UN, destroy sufficient of
Gaddafi's armour just in time to save Benghazi from a proclaimed massacre of rebel
civilians

2011 March 19 Muammar Gaddafi's tanks are on the verge of reaching Benghazi to
enter the city and carry out his promised cleansing of the city of rebel traitors

2011 March 17 The United Nations Security Council passes Resolution 1973,
authorizing the international community to use force to protect civilians in Libya

2011 March 17 Muammar Gaddafi makes a rousing speech on Libyan TV saying that his
people will seek out traitors and infidels in Benghazi 'alley by alley' to deal with them

2011 March 14 Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates agree to send troops and
police to strengthen government forces in Bahrain
2011 March 11 Nearly 20,000 people are killed and more than 125,000 buildings
destroyed or severely damaged by the Japanese earthquake and tsunami

2011 March 11 The Japanese tsunami results in a nuclear crisis and massive evacuation
because of meltdowns in three reactors at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant
2011 March 11 A massive earthquake off the northeast coast of Japan causes a huge
tsunami resulting in massive devastation for miles inland
2011 March 9 King Mohammed VI of Morocco announces in a televised address that he
is taking steps to introduce constitutional reforms
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2011 February 26 Benghazi, by now firmly in the control of rebels, becomes the
temporary headquarters of Libya's newly formed National Transitional Council
2011 February 20 A demonstration in Rabat demands that the king of Morocco
relinquish some of his powers is followed by King Mohammed VI announcing on
television plans for reform
2011 February 18 The demands of protesters in Bahrain extend to include the overthrow
of the monarchy, after a second day of government forces using live rounds

2011 February 17 Police in Bahrain make a night raid on peaceful protesters encamped
in the capital city's Pearl Roundabout, killing three
2011 February 15 Demonstrations over the arrest of a human rights lawyer in Benghazi,
Libya's second city, are violently broken up by the police
2011 February 11 After nearly three weeks of escalating violence in Egypt, President
Mubarak announces his resignation
2011 February 7 The results are published of the Southern Sudan referendum on
independence, with more than 98% voting in favour of the break from Sudan

2011 January 28 On what becomes known as the 'Friday of Anger' hundreds of
thousands demonstrate in Egypt after Friday prayers, a developing tradition in the
Arab Spring
2011 January 27 A major demonstration is held in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen,
demanding the resignation of the president, Ali Abdullah Saleh
2011 January 26 Protests begin in Syria, rising over the following months to the level of
an uprising as demands for Bashar al-Assad to resign are met with increasing
brutality
2011 January 26 Recognizing the use made by demonstrators of Facebook and Twitter,
the Egyptian government shuts down internet access for most of the country

2011 January 25 Inspired by the example of Tunisia, a day of revolt is organized in
Egypt, in protest against police methods and to coincide with National Police Day

2011 January 14 Ben Ali, in control of Tunisia for 23 years, resigns and flees to Saudi
Arabia after four weeks of mounting tension and violence in the streets
2011 January 14 anti-gpovernment protests begin in Jordan, soon causing King
Abdullah to form a new cabinet with the brief to introduce reform
2010 December 21 A total lunar eclipse in the northern hemisphere coincides with the
winter solstice for the first time since 1638
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